Answers: A Christmas Carol
Here are the answers to my Dickens — A Christmas Carol Quiz at WordWenches Blog:
- Dickens originally wrote A Christmas Carol…
a) because his wife was pregnant and he needed the money - How long did Dickens take to write A Christmas Carol?
c) six weeks - The story was originally published…
b) in serial form in a magazine - When A Christmas Carol was published…
b) Dickens published it at his own expense - The book was a huge artistic success but…
d) it wasn’t a financial success - When Dickens’ was twelve, his father was imprisoned for…
b) debt - The tale was influenced by Dickens’s own life. As a boy he was forced to work…
a) in a shoe blacking factory - His fellow workers referred to the 12 year old Dickens as…
c) “the young gentleman” - In an early draft of the manuscript, Tiny Tim was called…
d) Little Fred - The original manuscript gave no hint of the fate of Tiny Tim but at the last minute Dickens inserted a sentence that indicated Tiny Tim did not die and that Scrooge became a second father to him. The reason Dickens did this is…
b) not known